Welcome

To the Bramford Local History Group web site. The “Round House” shown here was adopted by the Group as its logo, it was the gatehouse to Bramford Hall. Situated at the North end of The Street and at the bottom of the long drive up to the Hall. Sadly demolished in the 1960’s.

Mr and Mrs Parker are shown outside the Round house.

Articles are continually being added, and the photo gallery is the next project to be undertaken when all the photographs have been collated.

Ipswich Evening Star 19th October 1908 It will be remembered that some time ago the three-light east window in Bramford Parish Church was removed, that a five-light window might take its place. The three-light window after removal, was passed on, by the Vicar and...

Walter and Maude Vesey In 1911 Maud Mildred Told was 19 years old and an elementary school teacher living with her parents and sister (Ruth Lillian) in Emsworth Villa, Rushmere Road, Ipswich. Maud and Ruth were born in Friern Barnet and daughters of an army pensioner....

For those not familiar with this location you will find it as you travel along the Somersham road to Little Blakenham. Until a few years ago it was a land fill site operated by Suffolk County Council having previously been a chalk quarry. The hill, into...

Ipswich Journal 14 October 1876 An inquest was held on Thursday afternoon in the Board Room at the East Suffolk Hospital, touching the death of James Scott, who died on Wednesday, from the effects of injuries sustained by the falling of a sack of corn upon him, at...

BIG FIRE AT BRAMFORD – FLOUR MILL GUTTED As a result of a fire which broke out on Thursday morning one of the landmarks on the River Gipping has been destroyed, the outbreak being attended with no small pecuniary loss. But more serious than the momentary loss is the...

After the Black Death in 1349, which was responsible for the deaths of about one third of the population of England, the rate of change in the traditional way of life on the medieval manor escalated rapidly. Before that time, the lord of the manor had extracted...

Ipswich Journal 27 October 1838 ROBBING A FRIENDLY SOCIETY – Francis Flory, 34, and John Osborn (who had surrendered to take his trial having been admitted to bail) were charged with having on the 18th inst. stolen an elm box, containing 18L 12s 0d, and a...

Bertie was born on the 26th February 1897. He was the son of Arthur and Sarah (née Rowland) and born while the family lived in Station Alley. These were a group of cottages that were on the site of what is now Keebles Garage and next to the original site of Bramford...

The following extract from the Bramford & Burstall Church Magazine of July 1898 conjures up a picture of village life in the late Victorian period. This was from a time when the main forms of transport were steam and horse powered and Bramford had its own railway...